Following the successful debut of the GHENT ART BOOK FAIR in May 2015, 2016 & 2017 019 and RIOT present the fourth edition of the GHENT ART BOOK FAIR, on 5th - 6th May 2018 at 019 Ghent, DOK-NOORD 5L, 9000 Ghent.

• Fiona Banner AKA The Vanity Press, ‘Intermission'
This flag dates back to days at art college, about 30 years ago — I didn't make any art at that time, but I started to make a film that consisted only of the word INTERMISSION flickering, though it was not completed. ‘Intermission’, a full stop or space between chapters, a duration of unfilled time, a bog break — the word on the flag could be seen as a looped projection and so is a permanent break — but it is like a movie, because it is rectangular and animated (by the conditions, wind and whatever.)
Flags are heroic, they are about territory. The word ‘…mission’ suggests something heroic, a story, a conquest, but an 'inter-mission' is unheroic - a space between content, a non-territory, non fantasy duration, — Fly thee well
Fiona Banner AKA The Vanity Press

• Max Kesteloot, Screening SPOT SPOTS – Prologue due to circumstances

• Tauba Auerbach, ‘OoO’, 19 flags for 019

Posters

Poster designs by students of KASK & CONSERVATORIUM School of Arts Gent, LUCA School of Arts & Sint Lucas Antwerpen

Supported by the city of Ghent

PUBLISHERS

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●○Arctic Paper Beneluxwww.arcticpaper.comWe are a paper producer and would like to show part 2 of our new paper collection (Base collection and Munken Book collection).

●○Art Paper Editionswww.artpapereditions.orgAPE (Art Paper Editions) is an independent publishing platform. APE was founded in 2010 by Jurgen Maelfeyt and Caroline De Malsche and focusses on the book as an exhibition space. APE works with artists and institutions.

●○Be-Partwww.bepartlive.orgBe-Part, Centre for Contemporary Art in Waregem, Belgium, is an international laboratory for the creation and circulation of contemporary art.

●○Bulk artbookswww.bulkartbooks.org_bulk is a platform that distributes young artistic publications and a search tool gathering actors from the independent artbook scene! The platform aims to promote the independent artbook and has an open source model: _bulk directly connects an author and the person interested in its work. Belgium non profit association, created by Louise Rigaux. Supported by the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles.

●○Chibawww.chibaspace.netChiba is an independent collective that aims to investigate our times and social issues through experimental artistic production, critical research and anthropological reflection about the role of technology and the new ecological phenomena, shaping hypothetical scenarios of our present. To do so, since 2015 Chiba produces a variety of self-publishing zines, which include short stories, manifestos, photography and illustrations in both traditional and digital form, and poetry. Chiba exhibits across Italy and abroad.

●○éditions Menardissuu.com/editionsmenardEditions Menard is an artist-run publishing house founded by Egon van Herreweghe and Jasper Rigole in 2012 at the occasion of the publication of Elective Affinities 1. Currently Editions Menard focuses on collaborative projects, short-run editions and Zines.

●○Fw: Bookswww.fw-photography.nl
Fw:Books is an independent publisher with a focus on photography and related topics. Photography is a unique medium; it doesn’t have a fixed way of revealing itself. It can be a screen, a c-print, a slideprojection, or a book. We see the choice to make a book as a choice to make a new work.

●○From Me To Youwww.frommetoyou.beFROM ME TO YOU PUBLICATIONS was founded by Maud Vande Veire in 2009. It functions as a platform for self-publishing. From Me To You Publications is the main publishing activity of Maud Vande Veire. OTHER PUBLICATIONS This collection of self-published books by diverse artists reflects very personal interests, void of any aesthetic or discursive restrictions. The catalogue also includes titles that are the result of collaborative projects.

●○Grafische Celwww.grafischecel.be
The 'Grafische Cel' is a publisher and a platform for research from the academic Graphic Design course at Sint-Lucas Visual Arts in Ghent (LUCA School of Arts). The 'Grafische Cel' aims to reflect on the practice and position of the graphic designer as someone who, in addition to the visual design of an assignment, is also involved in the structural composition, editing and production process of a project. In this context it is developing a contemporary publication platform.

●○INFABORE (former I.F.B.R)www.slormpje.blogspot.beINFABORE (for INconsistent FAce BOdy RElationship) is an attempt to reduce to his tiniest part the available amount of opportunities between the mechanical process and the human involvement, by the implementation of arbitrary constraints in order to restrain the operator’s ability to provide sense (and finally to express empathy with the machine).

●○Juheewww.juheebooks.comJuhee is a Korean graphic designer and graduate from the Royal College of Art in London. She is creating books while continuously developing as a graphic designer/researcher. Her perspective is grounded between Europe and Asia. Her book, “European Art Book Fairs on the Shelf” will be released in April by the Korean publishing house, Summer Forest. She covered characteristic and unique art book fairs across Europe (Ghent, London, Paris, Berlin) in 2017. In order to oversee the current art book market and flow in Europe, she met various thought-provoking publishers and visitors from different backgrounds sharing their fair experiences. Silkscreen fabric posters and tote bags will be brought alongside the book.

●○KASK, School of Artswww.schoolofartsgent.be
The Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) and the Royal Conservatory constitute the School of Arts of University College Ghent. The school brings together talented and motivated students with outstanding educators, active artists, designers and theorists in art and design from all over the world. The mission statement of the school defines its main tasks: development of the arts, education and research in an international perspective.

●○Little bit ill. PublicationsLittle bit ill. Publications is a bootleg publisher of texts relevant to current feminism. Little bit ill. brings texts and images from the internet together, shapes them in a new design and publishes them on paper, in order to physically capture shifting trends and discussions that are happening online.

●○Lugemikwww.lugemik.eeLugemik is an independent publishing initiative based in Tallinn, Estonia, founded in 2010 by graphic designer Indrek Sirkel and artist Anu Vahtra. Lugemik publishes books and other printed matter, working closely together with artists, writers, designers, printers in every step of the publishing process. In 2013 Lugemik opened a bookshop on the premises of the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM) and in 2017 its second location in collaboration with Tallinn Art Hall.

●○Lyre Presswww.lyrepress.com
Lyre Press is an independent publishing initiative founded in 2015 by artists Max Pinckers and Sam Weerdmeester. With a personal background in self-publishing, Pinckers and Weerdmeester work in close collaboration with artists from various media to produce autonomous publications. Lyre Press is run by non-profit organisation De Bedoeling vzw and is based in Brussels, Belgium.

●○MER. Paper Kunsthallewww.merpaperkunsthalle.orgMER. Paper Kunsthalle foundation was established in 2005 in order to examine the possibilities and position of books as places to exhibit art. Since their incipience, art books often developed as rigid catalogues or aide-mémoires. They were seldom considered as genuine spaces to exhibit living art. However, from Dada onwards artists have always thought of books as independent exhibiting spaces. From its creation onwards, MER keeps building further on this specific artistic practice.

●○Occasional Paperswww.occasionalpapers.orgFounded in 2008, Occasional Papers is a non-profit publisher of affordable books devoted to the histories of architecture, art, design, film and literature. Occasional Papers is Sara De Bondt, Antony Hudek (co-founders) and Piper Haywood (managing editor).

●○Onomatopeewww.onomatopee.netOnomatopee Projects, founded in 2006 and directed by Freek Lomme since, is a curating and editorial led public gallery and publisher that is particularly known for their self-initiated, transdisciplinary projects. Furthermore, they host projects to progressive individuals as well as artist-run and institutional organisations. Each project – consisting of a boundary pushing exhibition and an elevating publication– transfers exceptional cultural attention, as a source of wonder and knowledge that identifies a current experience of visual culture. Onomatopee’s award-winning publications and experimental exhibitions are known for their technically smart, well-balanced design and editing. Assembling surprising teams of artists, designers, academic thinkers, creative writers, architects, exhibition designers, graphic designers and more; the exhibitions’ curatorial formats challenge contemporary topics in unconventional ways. Through the release of critical and independent visual culture within the experience economy, they established a safe haven for critical thought and refuge for poetic experience.

●○POV Bookswww.povbooks.comPOV Books is a small unofficial art book publisher run by Lennart Van den Bossche. I focus on experimenting with the idea of how far a book can become a stand-alone exposition/object, and what the limits are of the definition of a book. This happens with high care for graphic design and use of materials. Two books have been published with the work of Ghent based artists François Van Damme and Floris Hoorelbeke. On the GABF there will be a new project shown: a poster box with the work of François Van Damme. The posters will be published separately so that the owner will have to collect them in the box. Another project will be announced: a new book with the work of ex-ECAL student and French artist Mathieu Cart.

●○Posture Editionswww.posture-editions.comPosture Ed. — an initiative of Nikolaas Demoen and Katrien Daemers — produces series of publications with a recognizable format within which any number of variations are possible. The focus lies on the artist’s visual essay which allows to reflect on the oeuvre and provides insight into the studio practice. An author conversant with contemporary art writes an essay for the publication. The interaction between the visual art and the text can vary greatly from one publication to another. The end result is always an A4 featuring the serial number on the cover. Recently published: Sophie Nys, Nicolas Lamas and Carole Vanderlinden.

●○Publication Studio Rotterdamwww.publicationstudio.bizWe are a publisher of original books distributing through a global network, a printer and binder able to make books one-at-a-time, and a social gathering place for those interested in publication or in publishing their own work. Publication Studio (founded in 2009 in Portland, Oregon) prints and binds books one at a time on-demand, creating original work with artists and writers we admire. We use any means possible to help writers and artists reach a public: physical books; a digital commons (where anyone can read and annotate our books for free); eBooks; and unique social events with our writers and artists in many cities. We attend to the social life of the book. Publication Studio is a laboratory for publication in its fullest sense – not just the production of books, but the production of a public. This public, which is more than a market, is created through physical production, digital circulation, and social gathering. Together these construct a space of conversation which beckons a public into being. A network of 11 Studios in Canada, North America, South America, Europe and Afrika share responsibility for production and distribution of new titles in the Publication Studio catalogue.

●○Ramsdam Booksinstagram.com/ramsdambooksRamsdam Books (Ghent/Leipzig) focuses on artists publications in small editions. The books are trying to find a middle ground between artists books and zines; more conceptual than zines but cheaper and more diy than most artists books. The whole production process is executed by the artist and the publisher. All books are hand made.

●○TSAR Editionswww.ratscollectif.chFounded in 2012, Editions TSAR, publishing house of the Collective RATS group together 18 publications developed in close collaboration with various artists and authors. Like the rest of the activities of the RATS Collective, the TSAR editions take hold of the book medium by enrolling in the practice of small-scale experimental publishing. Although the programming is mainly composed of artists' books, it remains open to any kind of proposal that is relevant to us. Each project is made in a singular way taking into account every aspect of the book. Our books are easily diffusable physical spaces that tell the story of the RATS Collective.

●○Féros magazinewww.revueferos.frFéros is an erotic magazine. Sometimes sensual, sometimes sexual, Féros calls to senses to awaken. Contemporary by definition, it explores with an obsessive eye aesthetic and contemporary fascinations for instinct in human nature. Its publication impose the need to reveal the principles at stake in a contemporary vision of Eros, which is constantly seeking for and redefining itself, without interference. Féros only includes visual arts, symbolic projects.

●○Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerpwww.ap.be/royal-academyThe Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp offer both undergraduate and (post) graduate programmes in visual arts and design. A broad scope of courses cover almost anything within the field of applied and fine arts. The Antwerp Academy is not only committed to providing excellent higher art education, it is also a knowledge institution in the field of artistic research. As part of our research programme we regularly publish the results of our artistic research through our Track Report book series.

●○Smoke & Dustwww.019-ghent.org
SMOKE & DUST is a non-profit record label and publishing house. The objective is to distribute contemporary music that is made by artists who share a common vision and background. Every release is an intense cooperation between the label and the artists involved. The artwork and the music are meticulously intertwined in order to make a new, coherent and balanced entity

●○Terrain Vague
The Terrain Vague is a tabloid format 64 page colour feminist-queer revue dealing with the borderlines between identity, gender and sexuality in contemporary art, fuction, theory, performance and pop culture. Each article is a juxtaposition between an artist (painter, ceramist, photograph, illustrator) with a journalist, a writer, poet presenting together their original work.

●○The Eriskay Connectionwww.eriskayconnection.comWe are a publisher of photo/art books with a strong emphasis on research and science. As we took part in the previous edition as well, we would like to focus on the publications we have published since then.

●○Valizwww.valiz.nl
Valiz is an independent international publisher on contemporary art, theory, critique, design and urban affairs. Our books offer critical reflection, interdisciplinary inspiration, and often establish a connection between cultural disciplines and socio-political questions. We publish these books out of our commitment to their content, to artistic and social issues and to the artists, designers and authors.